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NYT error: Fox News is not top rated

By Christopher B. Daly  Today’s Times has an interesting (though somewhat thin) story about the relationship between president Obama and Fox News. One thing caught my eye: But now, with the...

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Obama: Media Critic?

By Christopher B. Daly Even on vacation, I couldn’t help noticing this piece in today’s Times about President Obama’s news-reading habits and his criticisms of some of the coverage.  As a media critic...

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Tough call

By Christopher B. Daly  I’m not sure why, but I am finding it hard to sort out the issues in the flap over CNN’s use of the diary of the late U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. I guess it’s...

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Dick Morris: wrong or stupid?

By Christopher B. Daly Among the many satisfactions on election night 2012 was seeing Dick Morris, the smarmy former Clinton political adviser, get slapped around the head by the facts. Just a few days...

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Math for journalists (and everyone else too)

By Christopher B. Daly  In the wake of last week’s election, many Republicans seems to be facing not only a political problem but also an epistemological one. Epistemology is the term philosophers use...

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New NYT exec: Up to the job?

By Christopher B. Daly  Mark Thompson is wrapping up his first week as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times Company. That role puts him in a critical position in U.S. journalism,...

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How to break into the news business

By Christopher B. Daly Well, here’s one way: 1. Start off with a career in modeling. 2. Become a Republican. 3. Never work as a reporter/editor/photographer. 4. Join FOX News as a highly paid on-air...

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NBC News now a tiny cog in Comcast

By Christopher B. Daly It is worth noting that the once-mighty NBC News division is now a tiny cog in the giant money-making machine that is Comcast. Exercising a legal prerogative, the giant cable...

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Shameless self-promotion (Journalism history division)

By Christopher B. Daly Finally, it’s here: the electronic version of my book about the history of U.S. journalism, Covering America. Just in time for the anniversary of the rollout of the hardback,...

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Should Murdoch be able to buy the L.A. Times?

By Christopher B. Daly  Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is not finished trying to acquire more news outlets, despite his unsavory legal problems. His latest target is the L.A. Times, the paper...

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The Constitution is for everyone

By Christopher B. Daly  One of the most serious recent threats to press freedom is playing out in Colorado. It involves a reporter for FoxNews.com who is the target of a subpoena by a state prosecutor...

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Un-bundling the media

By Christopher B. Daly  In his latest column, the New York Times‘ David Carr makes a smart argument about how the media — both entertainment and news — are coming apart under pressure from the Web....

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CNN gets it wrong

By Christopher B. Daly  In his column in today’s New York Times, David Carr analyzes CNN’s self-inflicted wound caused by wrongly reporting the arrest of a suspect in the Marathon bombing case. In...

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The bombing case: “Total Noise”?

By Christopher B. Daly  Here is a fine piece that features the author Jim Gleick thinking in print about the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and related events. (Full disclosure: I have known...

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Can journalism get by without advertisers?

By Christopher B. Daly  Why should journalism depend on advertising? There is nothing logical, necessary or inevitable about it. Originally, advertising was a trivial source of income for 18th Century...

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Where Obama is dangerously wrong about journalism

Don’t miss this excellent piece by Glenn Greenwald, which ran recently in The Guardian. In it, Greenwald — a lawyer, journalist, and prize-winning author — carefully builds a case about what the Obama...

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TV in courtrooms? TV in statehouses?

By Christopher B. Daly In America, where the people attempt to rule themselves, why should we not have access to even the innermost reaches of our executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

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The re-making of the news media

By Christopher B. Daly  We are living through a period of great flux in the news business. There are new ventures, new hybrids, new devices for gathering and disseminating information, documents, and...

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Surveillance roundup

[NSA Out]* *Now, there’s some metadata for you. Back in the day when I worked for the Associated Press, we had to “slug” our material with various directives, indicating who had access to the material...

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Let cameras into court

By Christopher B. Daly  As I recently argued, we the people deserve to have cameras in all our courtrooms (except maybe juvenile court) and our legislative bodies. The latest case in point: the...

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